[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]End of a Street car line?

[John Swindler]

Never done London or Paris either.  That's what day tickets are for.
 
John
 
 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net> Subject: [PRCo] Re: [PRCo]End of a Street car line?> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:42:29 -0400> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > If you like torturing yourself, Manhattan is OK. No worse than > London or Paris. Done them all. Where I do not want to drive is > Delhi because those people are too skilled.> > On Aug 10, 2008, at 11:20 PM, John Swindler wrote:> > >> >> > SEPTA fare isn't bad. Only $1.30 base fare because I keep a small > > supply of tokens. And in a few years, will keep a small supply of > > senior citizen tickets so that my senior commuter rail trips will > > only cost 85 cents - or whatever it is then. I place a value on > > convenience.> >> > Parking cost at PHL is $11 daily. Tolerable for short trips - not > > so for long trip.> >> > So what is it like to drive in Manhattan??? Never done that. (:>)> >> > John> >> From: fwschneider at comcast.net> To: pittsburgh- > >> railways at dementia.org> Subject: [PRCo] Re: [PRCo]End of a Street > >> car line?> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:10:04 +0000> > It's all a > >> matter of where you are going. And that is how Bob Rathke started > >> this, John, by comparing parking costs in Manhattan to the train > >> fare. > If the destination is the Philadelphia Airport for two > >> weeks abroad, the taxi fare to the Lancaster station, the Amtrak > >> fare to Philadelphia, and the INEPTA fare to the airport is one- > >> sixth of just the cost of the parking charge at the Philadelphia > >> airport. It is about 1/11th of the total driving cost to the > >> airport in Philaelphia. Sure as God made green apples, I'm not > >> driving to the Philadelphia airport to catch a plane.> > If I were > >> going to Newark, NJ for the day, I would probably drive because I > >> could find some place to park the car on the street or in a > >> parking lot for $25. But if I were driving to Newark to catch a > >> plane, then I would seriously consider the tr!> > ain to the monorail to the airport.. Or I might, as I've done > > before, use rental cars. They're cheaper than the parking fees and > > a lot easier than hauling suitcases on a train. > > If I were going > > to the Philadelphia Art Museum, I might drive because they have > > their own parking lot. If, however, it was the last day of a major > > exhibit at the art museum, I would probably take the train knowing > > full well that I couldn't get into the art museum lot. > > If I > > were going to Manhattan? Only a fool or the uneducated drives a car > > into Manhattan and parks it there. A flight out of Kennedy Airport? > > Well, there is a limo service from Lancaster to Kennedy but I've > > successfully managed to avoid that airport for most flights over > > the last two decades. > > Working at the Baltimore Streetcar > > Museum? I can make it from home to the museum in 85 to 95 minutes. > > If I had to use public transportation, it would take three and a > > half hours each way spread over two or three days. The only > > possible r!> > oute is through Philadelphia. > > Working at the Pennsylvania Trolley> > Museum? Well, that's about a four to four and a half hour drive. By > > public transportation? Well, there is a train from Lancaster to > > Pittsburgh and some sort of rudimentary bus service from Pittsburgh > > to Meadowlands and then a two-mile walk. Sort of a no-brainer, > > isn't it? > > And why would I want to invest in a SEPTA ten trip > > ticket? That is like giving the turnpike commission my money in > > advance for tolls so I can use Easy Pass and so that they can > > furlough employees. > -------------- Original message > > -------------- > From: John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com> > > > > > > > > > Fred could also purchase a SEPTA ten-trip senior citizen > > ticket for $8.50 unless > > he prefers Amtrak from Lancaster. > > > >> > _________________________________________________________________> > Got Game? Win Prizes in the Windows Live Hotmail Mobile Summer > > Games Trivia Contest> > http://www.gowindowslive.com/summergames?ocid=TXT_TAGHM> >> > 
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